Carol Murray

Thank you very much for having me.

I'm very excited to be here.

Yes, that's correct.

I was 24 years old and I feel like, you know, when you're done college and you move to a big city and you're about to launch into adulthood, I was really just at that pace where I was working and living in the city for a year and it was my friend's birthday.

And it's something that we wanted to do to celebrate.

And I will say that I was the ringleader.

I was the pusher.

In this instance, and so we decided to go for it.

And on a Saturday morning, we headed about an hour north of Toronto to go skydiving.

We actually didn't jump and I'd actually didn't jump until Sunday.

But there were several things that happened before the jump that led me to wanting to back out.

But I didn't have the confidence to do so.

I was 24 years old, and when the owner and instructor said, no, this stuff happens all the time, I didn't have the confidence within myself to say no.

But some of the things that made me nervous, my friend fell asleep three times during training and was told, if you fall asleep one more time, you're not going to get to go.

And they said this to him three times.

I felt that the training wasn't very comprehensive to jump out of a plane.

Our test jump was once from a wooden structure that was maybe the height of my hip.

The 12-year-old was packing parachutes.

Their son was packing parachutes.

They said that he was certified.